Jakob Bosshart

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Jakob Bosshart (born August 7, 1862 in the hamlet of Stürzikon , municipality of Oberembrach , canton of Zurich ; † February 18, 1924 in Clavadel , municipality of Davos ) was a Swiss teacher and writer .

Jakob Bosshart (1862–1924) teacher and writer. Photograph by Camill Ruf, 1920
Jakob Bosshart, 1920
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Head Bosshart, etching, 1921

Life

Jakob Bosshart was, as he wrote, the son of “troubled but ambitious farmers”. He grew up on a lonely farm between the Töss and Glatt valleys in the Zürcher Unterland . After attending secondary school, he completed the teacher training seminar in Küsnacht from 1882 to 1885 and became a teacher in Germany for a short time. Years of study at the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Paris followed . He studied German and Romance languages ​​and received his doctorate in philology in 1887.

He then taught in England and at various secondary schools in the Canton of Zurich. In Winterthur he married the daughter of the later Federal Councilor Ludwig Forrer . From 1899 he headed and reformed the Zurich Cantonal School as rector for 16 years . In 1912 the seminar teacher in Küsnacht, Paul Suter, published a lecture about Bosshart in the teacher's newspaper .

In 1915 he had to be transferred to a sanatorium in the high valley of Clavadel near Davos due to advanced tuberculosis , where he died in 1924.

Works

Book illustration by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Next to Heerstraße, 1923.

Bosshart wrote stories and a novel, whose heroes come from the country, like the author himself. He went against the materialistic zeitgeist. Of the planned trilogy, with which Bosshart wanted to settle accounts with his age and want to show young people a way into the future, Bosshart was only able to complete the novel A Caller in the Desert , which is considered his spiritual legacy. He tried to reconcile social and political differences within Swiss society before and during the First World War.

  • In the fog, stories from the Swiss mountains, 1898
  • The mountain village, narration, 1900
  • The Berettlit Daughter, novella, 1902
  • Through Pain Up, Two Novellas, 1903
  • Completed early, novellas and sketches, 1910
  • Clods of earth, short stories and sketches, 1913
  • Dreams of the Desert, Oriental Novellets and Fairy Tales, 1918
  • Will-o'-the-wisps, 3 short stories, 1918
  • Sacrifice, short stories, 1920
  • A caller in the desert , novel, 1921
  • Next to Heerstraße, Stories, 1923
  • Gesture and Action , 1923
  • Poems, 1924
  • The Decision and other postponed narratives, 1925
  • On the Roman road . Postponed memories and stories of youth, 1926
  • Building blocks for life and time . Compiled and edited by Elsa Bosshart-Forrer, Verlag Grethlein & Co., Zurich and Leipzig 1929

Works for children and young people

  • Die Schwarzmattleute, SJW booklet 96
  • Schaniggel, SJW booklet 414

Awards

Memorial stone for Jakob Bosshart above Zurich-Hottingen (near Grand Hotel Dolder )

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gerhard Schneider, Karl Heinz Berger : German stories from Switzerland . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1956, p. 515.
  2. ↑ Part 1 , Part 2
  3. ↑ Up through pain: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7.

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personal data
SURNAME Bosshart, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosshart, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Stürzikon , Oberembrach , Canton of Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1924
Place of death Clavadel near Davos , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland